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1997

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Nabokov And Bergson: An Influence Of Independence, Susan Leanne Shaevitz Oct 1997

Nabokov And Bergson: An Influence Of Independence, Susan Leanne Shaevitz

English Theses & Dissertations

This thesis investigates the influence Henri Bergson's philosophy had on Vladimir Nabokov's writing. Bergson's major concerns, as espoused in Time and Free Will, Creative Evolution, and Matter and Memory, are recognized in Pale Fire, The Defense, and King, Queen, Knave, as well as in the various reworkings of the novelist's autobiography, Speak, Memory. These texts illustrate a shared concern with issues about time and space, aesthetic experience, instinct and analysis, and the importance of memory. At the heart of all of these matters rests a common concern for both writers--the primacy of lived experience and the necessity of free will. …


Review Of "Svezho Predanie" By I. Grekova, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Apr 1997

Review Of "Svezho Predanie" By I. Grekova, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Review Of "Mandel'shtam: Problema Chteniia I Ponimaniia" By I. Gurvich, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Apr 1997

Review Of "Mandel'shtam: Problema Chteniia I Ponimaniia" By I. Gurvich, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Begging The Earth's Forgiveness: Russian Folklore In The Novels Of F. M. Dostoevsky, Wendy Kristine Chia-Klesch Apr 1997

Begging The Earth's Forgiveness: Russian Folklore In The Novels Of F. M. Dostoevsky, Wendy Kristine Chia-Klesch

English Theses & Dissertations

The pervading theme of Dostoevsky's novels is humanity's need to discover meaning in the natural world and in human experience. For generations, the Russian peasantry created myths and folk tales in order to understand the workings of Damp Mother Earth and to endow the earth and their lives with meaning. By the nineteenth century, however, the principles of Western materialism, which Dostoevsky likened to "intelligent bacteria," began to drift across the border and infect the Russian intelligentsia. These new Westernizers devoted themselves to dismantling existing religious and folk traditions and replacing them with a modern sign system based on science …


The Beat Generation, Agnieszka Taborska, Paula Hunter, Steven L. Jobe, James O. Barnhill, Helen Lee, Joshua Waldman, Nishira Fitzgerald, Brendan Meilman, Ismael Lawall, Zach Pitt-Smith, Kevin Walker, Tamara Carroll, Rhon Porter, Maleese Schick, Rhody Azcueta, Kevin Umbricht, Matthew Curry, Jee-Eun Kim, Michelle Lee, Marisa Nealon, Karelle Levi, Hilary Riley, Simon Potter, Antoinette Le Vaillant Feb 1997

The Beat Generation, Agnieszka Taborska, Paula Hunter, Steven L. Jobe, James O. Barnhill, Helen Lee, Joshua Waldman, Nishira Fitzgerald, Brendan Meilman, Ismael Lawall, Zach Pitt-Smith, Kevin Walker, Tamara Carroll, Rhon Porter, Maleese Schick, Rhody Azcueta, Kevin Umbricht, Matthew Curry, Jee-Eun Kim, Michelle Lee, Marisa Nealon, Karelle Levi, Hilary Riley, Simon Potter, Antoinette Le Vaillant

Programs

Program for the tenth annual RISD Cabaret held in the Waterman Building, top floor coinciding "with the fiftieth anniversary of the year when Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac first met and started a movement which changed the face of postwar American and influenced the 1960s as well as the subculture of the '70s and '80s." Program, poster and tickets designed by Antoinette le Vaillant. View the Performance Recording.


Predictability And Artistic Freedom In Bilovský'S Homiletic Writings, Petko Ivanov Jan 1997

Predictability And Artistic Freedom In Bilovský'S Homiletic Writings, Petko Ivanov

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of "Slavianskii Stikh: Stikhovedenie, Lingvistika I Poetika: Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi Konfereniii 19-23 Iiunia 1995 G" By M. L. Gasparov And T. V. Skulachevaia; And "The Language And Verse Of Russia / Iazyk I Stikh V Rossii: In Honor Of Dean S. Worth" By H. Birnbaum And M. S. Flier, Sibelan E. S. Forrester Jan 1997

Review Of "Slavianskii Stikh: Stikhovedenie, Lingvistika I Poetika: Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi Konfereniii 19-23 Iiunia 1995 G" By M. L. Gasparov And T. V. Skulachevaia; And "The Language And Verse Of Russia / Iazyk I Stikh V Rossii: In Honor Of Dean S. Worth" By H. Birnbaum And M. S. Flier, Sibelan E. S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Crimes And Defenses Of Rodion Raskolnikov, Vera Bergelson Jan 1997

Crimes And Defenses Of Rodion Raskolnikov, Vera Bergelson

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


A Matter Of Give And Take: Peasant Crafts And Their Revival In Late Imperial Russia, Wendy Salmond Jan 1997

A Matter Of Give And Take: Peasant Crafts And Their Revival In Late Imperial Russia, Wendy Salmond

Art Faculty Articles and Research

Discusses the movement to revive peasant crafts in late imperial Russia. Resurrection of the handicrafts by the local peasant women in the 1870's, Russian artist Elena Penelova and her designs such as the bedside table with rosette motif and the interior of a peasant hut, Abramtsevo experiment, School of Folk Arts's teachings on drawing and traditional women's handwork to peasant girls.